Course · Claude Academy · intermediate · 58 min

Introduction to agent skills

Six lessons on skills in Claude Code, the reusable markdown instructions Claude applies automatically when a request matches: create a SKILL.md, restrict tool access, organise larger skills with reference files and scripts, decide between skills, CLAUDE.md, subagents, hooks and MCP servers, share skills through repositories and plugins, and troubleshoot with the validator. About 1 hour. Free.